George Chainey (1851-1935) was born in Kent, England, and died in Long Beach, California. He was a minister, lecturer, author, spiritualist and occultist. He was married three times: Martha A. Foster (1871-1885), Anna Kimball (1888-1903), and Katherine Little (1912). Chainey had a long ministerial career first as a Methodist, and after 1877, as a Unitarian. But in 1880, Chainey announced from the pulpit that he was no longer a Christian, was kicked out of Freemasonry, and moved his family to Boston, Massachusetts, where he lectured with the Ethical Society of Boston. He spent much of the 1880s touring the world as an independent author and lecturer on religion and mysticism. Together with his second wife, Anna Kimball, they published and edited The Gnostic (1885-1888), a monthly journal from Oakland, California, devoted to Spiritual Science and Universal Theosophy. From 1886 to 1888 the Chaineys toured and lectured around Australia and New Zealand but separated upon their return to the United States, later divorcing in 1903. Chainey settled in Chicago, Illinois, during the 1890s and devoted himself to writing an interpretation of the Bible called The Unsealed Bible; Or, Revelation Revealed. This first volume of a projected 30-volume series was never finished. It was published in 1902, after he founded the Mahanaim School of Interpretation around 1900 in Chicago. Chainey wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1907, introducing himself and sending her a copy of The Unsealed Bible; Or, Revelation Revealed.

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